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Cabinet - Sources

Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Saami group
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Purpose
The 15th-century printing types
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The Achaemenids in the Shahnameh
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Saami woman
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Suzan Bushnaq’s Artwork (Uzbekistan)
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Pilgrimage and the Jubilee
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Saami man
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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Five sculptural fragments from Persepolis
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Relics
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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A chemise binding
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Three medals: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred